Familial defective apolipoprotein (apo) B-100 is a genetic trait characterized by an Arg----Gln substitution in position 3500 of the apo B sequence. This genetic defect is associated with greatly increased concentrations of plasma cholesterol and may thus increase the risk of developing premature atherosclerotic disease. We describe here the use of mutagenic polymerase chain reaction primers, w...

In three-dimensional (3-D) cluttered scenes such as foliage, deeper surfaces often are more shadowed and hence darker, and so depth and luminance often have negative covariance. We examined whether the sign of depth-luminance covariance plays a role in depth perception in 3-D clutter. We compared scenes rendered with negative and positive depth-luminance covariance where positive covariance mea...

Abstract. We present the dust module in Multiscale Online Non-hydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) version 2.0, a chemical weather prediction system that can be used for regional and global modeling at range of resolutions. The representations processes MONARCH were upgraded with focus on emission (emission parameterizations, entrainment thresholds, considerations soil moisture surf...

As an unconventional oil and gas reservoir, the diagenesis evolution of continental shale controls formation occurrence inorganic organic pores. In order to quantitatively characterize pore characteristics a reservoir their influence on stage, types in Da’anzhai section lower Jurassic Ziliujing Formation were identified by means X-ray diffraction mineral composition analysis argon ion polishing...

The Great Amazon Reef System is a living biogenic mesophotic reef ecosystem that has been recently described along the shelf break of Brazil. An oceanographic cruise was carried out in 2019 outer edge French Guiana Shelf. A side-scan sonar survey conducted to locate outcrops and allowed twelve situ 80- 120-m depth dives sampling rocks peripheral sands. majority hard are composed biological conc...

A data depth is one of the most important concepts of nonparametric multivariate analysis. Several depth functions have been introduced since 1980. The halfspace depth is probably the most popular. This depth function has many desirable properties (they are stated in the general definition of statictical depth function). We show a way of generalization of the halfspace depth finding a broader c...

This paper studies single-image depth perception in the wild, i.e., recovering depth from a single image taken in unconstrained settings. We introduce a new dataset “Depth in the Wild” consisting of images in the wild annotated with relative depth between pairs of random points. We also propose a new algorithm that learns to estimate metric depth using annotations of relative depth. Compared to...